Newbie here, coming from dreaded Reolink. Educate me

loudog212 said:
Are these good settings to start with for an indoor camera that is using IR at night?
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Yes they are, but you can usually go faster shutters indoors due to IR reflection bounce off of the walls.
 
wittaj said:
Yes they are, but you can usually go faster shutters indoors due to IR reflection bounce off of the walls.
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Thank you. Just found this thread too which was a big help in understanding the shutter speed range in ms vs the fractional shutter speed that I am used to seeing.

Bitslizer

Thread 'Shutter speed.'

So left in auto, it seems the shutter speed is so slow at night that any cars driving past is a streak, can't even tell the make/model or SUV vs Sedan.

I'm using 2 starlight lite cameras 0.007/0.008 lux The street light is actually sufficient to get the camera to run in color mode up to 1/250 or 1/500 if I force them in manual mode but even 1/500 shutter is too slow (over exposed) during the day.

1) anyway to set a shutter "floor" so that it can have a faster shutter during the day but will not go slower than a pre-defined shutter speed at night by auto-adjusting gain instead?
2) anyway...
 
You need more zoom at that distance.

Digital zoom only works in Hollywood.

If that is the distance you want to IDENTIFY, you need to cut that field of view down at least in half.
 
FYI I run all of my 4MP cams at 10,240 bitrate CBR
 
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